How Everette Taylor went from a homeless college dropout to chief marketing officer at Skurt

Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Startups podcast.

That number could actually be much higher, given students’ reluctance to disclose any issues with their housing.

That same dynamic is also in play with coding bootcamps, where students have been able to get diversity scholarships or other financial resources, but are still homeless due to high housing costs in the cities where bootcamps are based.

On Today’s Breaking Into Startups episode, we share Everette Taylor’s untold story about how he went from being homeless in high school, dropped out of college, but went on to become the chief marketing officer at Skurt.